Paul Tan's Automotive News: Malaysia's EV roadmap - 10000 CBU full electric cars tax free, 7000 AC/500 DC charging points proposed - paultan.org.
https://paultan.org/2021/04/19/malaysias-ev-roadmap-proposes-7000-ac-and-500-dc-charging-points-10000-units-of-cbu-full-evs-tax-free/
This plan can be called the rich man's path to electrification. It is certainly not suitable for the poorest state in Malaysia, Sabah. Malaysia pretends to be richer than even USA and China, the 2 biggest economies in the world.
NEV and eBike policies are widespread in USA and China, allowing even the poorest to use EV, these vehicles are completely absent in the Malaysian proposal.
Of special note is the absent policy on battery manufacturing and recycling. With a minimum of 30km electric range for a hybrid, it will make hybrid cars expensive because of the cost of the battery.
At the cost of rm150 for every km of range, the cost of battery for 30km range is rm 4,500. Worse, unlike EV with big batteries, small batteries need to be replaced frequently, every few years, because at 1000 charging cycles, the range of a 30km battery is 30,000 km.
My proposal for an Optimum hybrid range is just 1km, enough to store the kinetic energy of a car. Fuel cars need only operate at its optimum speed, which is more than 10kmph. Less than that, use electric.
Since this technology is patented in Malaysia, at least give exemptions to it. Allow hybrids with EV range of at least 1km.
